Senior Technical Writer—Needed---Local to Bay area California Needed

DELTASOFT SOLUTIONS LLC

Senior Technical Writer—Needed---Local to Bay area California Needed

San Francisco, CA
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Benefits:

    401(k)

    401(k) matching

    Bonus based on performance

    Senior Technical Writer—Needed---Local to Bay area California Needed

    Need to be onsite once a week.

    The IT Technical Writer, Senior plans, creates, manages, and delivers targeted, custom documentation and content management solutions that serve the needs of IT and business clients internal and external to their own organizations. Working independently, the demonstrates advanced knowledge and technical competence in a senior professional level role, and applies advanced technical skills to multiple, complex projects as a subject matter expert and project leader across departments.

    Job Responsibilities

    Content Management

    Provides strategic, tactical, and operational consulting for document/content management technologies and services for internal/external clients.

    Designs, develops, and manages SharePoint sites.

    Designs document management structures; develops metadata tagging, custom lists, taxonomies, and retention processes; and maintains departmental document systems.

    Independently analyzes business processes and provides recommendations for improvement.

    Document/Project Management

    Identifies client’s documentation/business needs, scope, audience, deadlines and key stakeholders for internal, external, special projects and initiatives.

    Supports project Delivery: deliverables, schedules, and resource requirements in project plans.

    Spearheads solutions and obtains client/stakeholder feedback.

    Interviews and collaborates with SMEs to develop and update documentation and other content management services.

    Develops document content, custom lists, document workflows, and taxonomies; and facilitates reviews and revisions.

    Maintains documents in IT content repositories including OneDrive, SharePoint, and the Guidance Document Library

    Produces final documents for internal/external clients using standardized templates and established formats.

    Collaborates with SME to ensure the technical accuracy and quality of the content.

    Deliverables

    Produces technical Manuals and Guides, including Administration, Configuration, Installation, Operation, Standards, Guidelines, Procedure, Process, and User.

    Produces Compliance material, including Configuration Manuals (CMs), Process Manuals (PMs), Disaster Recovery Plans (DRPs) Operations Level Agreements (OLAs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

    Produces collateral material, such as executive/customer presentations, communication plans, brochures, white papers, and leave-behinds.

    Designs and produces instructional material, including manuals, tutorials, job aids, etc.

    Produces Word, Excel, and PowerPoint templates.

    Supports IT Methodology Project and Guidance Document Initiative (GDI) templates.

    Produces Graphics: flowcharts, organization charts, logos, photographs, etc.

    Qualifications

    Education & Experience

    Education: High School diploma.

    Desired: BA/BS in Computer Science, English, Technical Writing, or any related field.

    5 to 7 years of experience in content management, process improvement, and project management in the development of a wide range of IT documentation deliverables.

    Skills:

    Demonstrates advanced knowledge of relevant technical/professional concepts

    Applies advanced knowledge to solve moderate to complex problems and takes a new perspective on existing solutions

    May manage projects or initiatives

    Presents findings and makes recommendations to management

    Able to work and communicate across multiple departments.

    Excellent written and oral communication skills.

    Advanced knowledge in the use of MS Office and SharePoint.

    Desired: Extensive knowledge of key PG&E systems and process, IT platforms, and/or the Utility industry

    Abilities:

    Documentation Management: Completes documentation of service requests within established time frames; is accountable for sharing and publishing of information according to company policies and practices.

    Process Improvement: Identifies process problems and opportunities for improvement and simplification and takes action to control and improves processes.

    Consulting Skills: Uses expertise to counsel or guide individuals with regard to problems to be resolved on legal, financial, scientific, technical, or other professional principles.

    Communication Management: Manages communication activities to ensure all communication pieces clearly and accurately describe information in common, understandable terms and are consistent with company guidelines, policies, and procedures.

    Data Management: Gathers, groups, classifies, or arranges written information or data in some meaningful order or form (e.g., reports, charts, graphs); data management includes determining what data to gather; and accurately maintaining data files.

    Research and Analysis: Monitors, gathers and analyzes information, determines potential impacts, and recommends responses to challenges.

    Technology: Applies principles and methods of web technologies, tools, and delivery systems, including web security, privacy policy practices, and user interface issues.

    Thanks & Regards

    Bhanu Prakash

    DeltaSoft Solutions

    bhanu.prakash@deltasoftgroup.com